Demographic and Research Data

Gender: Female
Age: 30-39
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Protestant
How often do you attend religious services? Every week or almost
Native English speaker? YES

This subject, like most respondents, left no blanks on the instrument.

This subject reports a total of:

102 4's
44 3's
8 2's
2 1's

Strongs (1's and 4's) v. Middles (2's and 3's)

The scoring of the Inventory awards

4 points for each positively worded item answered 'Strongly Agree,' and for each negatively worded item answered 'Strongly Disagree.'
3 points for each positively worded item answered ' Agree,' and for each negatively worded item answered ' Disagree.'
2 points for each positively worded item answered 'Disagree,' and for each negatively worded item answered 'Agree.' and
1 point for each positively worded item answered 'Strongly Disagree,' and for each negatively worded item answered 'Strongly Agree.'

Responses Strongly Agree or Strongly Disagree are strong responses. Agree or Disagree are middle responses. A respondent who reaches a score of 10 with two 4's and two 1's obviously is in a different place than a respondent who reaches the same score with two 3's and two 2's.

Using these numbers, your other tests reports and clinical observations, you will want to weight your interpretation of the reported scores in light of the respondent's tendency to feel strongly or not strongly about most things, and the possible influence of this tendency on reported scores.

This average of this subject's standard scores is 0.98.

General Background: Although each of the six clinical scales has its own potential significance for your understanding of this respondent, there is a high level of coherence among the scales, a sort of halo-effect for God, which makes the average of these six scale scores a good place to begin your interpretation.

In interpreting this average and the individual scores, it should be kept in mind that the statistical norms on which this analysis is based have been validated only for U.S. Christians. Interpretations for members of other religions should be based more on clinical judgment than on the numbers in this report.

Comparison to norm: This average score is somewhat higher than the statistical norm. While this score could be the result of either generic or religious enthusiasm, or of socially desirable responses, most people who score in this range turn out to be pretty healthy, both religiously and personally.

This subject's Presence score is 0.86.

General Background: The Presence scale is, from the theoretical perspective, the most fundamental of the six clinical scales, since is measures the most basic question, 'Is God there for me?' Persons with a good score on this scale show a good basis for subsequent personal and religious development. Persons with weak scores on this scale can often benefit from psychological and spiritual assistance to accept reality (God, the universe, other people) as basically available and trustworthy. This scale is closely related to the Influence and Providence scales, making any large deviation among these three scores worth noting.

Comparison to norm: This score, 0.86, is somewhat above average. It may be that this person is simply more enthusiastic in response style, or more fervent in religious style, than most other people. But more likely is the possibility that this person has a fairly strongly reliable sense of God's presence, often accompanied by images of other significant figures as available, and a healthy self image. This asset should be used in dealing with whatever problems are presented.

This subject's Challenge score is 1.15.

General Background: The Challenge scale complements the Presence scale, both reflecting the issue of belonging. If Presence measures God as a safe haven, Challenge measures God as a secure base. The issue is "How much does God want me to grow? How far can I venture out on my own and still find God there when I get back?" Persons with a good score on this scale will generally have experienced parent figures as enablers more than controllers, and envision God the same way. Persons with extreme scores on this scale suggest very dependent or very independent personalities, respectively. This is the most statistically independent of the six clinical scales. While it does participate in the "halo-effect" for God, it is not closely related to any other scale in particular.

Comparison to norm: This score, 1.15, is significantly above the average score. Unless this results from response style, this person suggests a notably stronger sense than the average person of the responsibility for personal initiative, growth and achievement that their relationship with God both enables and demands. This can be considered a resource in dealing with whatever problems the client presents.

Comparison to all scales (minimum/maximum): Note that this score is this person's highest score of all the clinical scales. This may not be significant in itself, but combined with other observations it may suggest a strong drive for achievement, and/or a fiercely independent personality.

Comparison to related scales: Since the Challenge scale is the most statistically independent of the six clinical scales, there are no predictable correlations to examine. Nonetheless, the clinician should look at the pattern of scores in light of other tests and clinical observations for possible hypotheses.

This subject's Acceptance score is 1.01.

General Background: The Acceptance scale is the first of two scales measuring the fundamental questions of goodness. Goodness here does not mean moral goodness, the rightness or wrongness of some past or present deed, but ontological goodness, the fundamental quality that makes a person capable of and deserving of love. The Acceptance scale answers the primitive, foundational question 'Am I good enough to be loved?' Specifically, the question concerns God, 'Am I good enough for God to love?', but the score here usually also reflects the subjects perceptions of early experiences: 'Am I good enough for (Mom, Dad, etc.) to love?' Persons with high scores on this scale usually experienced early primary caregivers as loving, and believe that God and other persons in general should be able to love them. Persons with low scores here tend to perceive themselves as unlovable, and have generally low self-esteem, which is conformed by a relatively high correlation (.54) between this scale and the Rosenberg self-esteem Scale.

Comparison to norm: This score, 1.01, is significantly above the average score. Unless this results from response style, this person suggests a notably stronger sense than the average person of intrinsic lovability. This can be considered a resource in dealing with whatever problems the client presents.

This subject's Benevolence score is 0.85.

General Background: The Benevolence scale is designed to reflect the converse of the Acceptance scale. Acceptance asks 'Am I good enough for God to love?' Benevolence asks 'Is God the sort of person who would love me?' In practice, the two scales have turned out to be closely related (r=.90). Persons who score high on this scale have an image of God as a person who is characterized by strong, unbounded, unconditional love.

Comparison to norm: This score, 0.85, is somewhat above average. It may be that this person is simply more enthusiastic in response style, or more fervent in religious style, than most other people. But it is equally likely that this person simple has a pretty good level of self-esteem and is projecting it onto God.

Comparison to related scales: see the comments under Acceptance.

This subject's Influence score is 0.68.

General Background: The Influence scale is the first and more fundamental of the two control scales. It measures the answer to the question 'How much control do I have?' This active voice control may sound disrespectful when addressed to God, 'How much can I control God?', but the question is psychologically fundamental, and closely related to 'How much control do I have over the world, over my life? How much will important others listen to me? Does anyone, does the world, care what I think or what I need?' The normative study for this scale produced a fairly normal curve of distribution with a much more modest number of respondents maxing out here than on the Presence scale, yet the Presence and Providence scales are closely related to this scale (r=.94,.90). Persons with high scores on this scale will tend to feel that they are listened to, and that they have a good level of control over their lives.

Comparison to norm: This score, 0.68, is somewhat above average. It may be that this person is simply more enthusiastic in response style, or more fervent in religious style, than most other people. But also likely is the possibility that this person has a somewhat stronger than average sense of their ability to control reality, especially as it impacts their lives. This can be a useful asset in therapy.

Comparison to all scales (minimum/maximum): Note that this score is this person's lowest score of all the clinical scales. This may suggest that felt lack of influence or control is a dominant issue for this client.

This subject's Providence score is 0.84.

General Background: The Providence scale measures the answer to the question 'How much control does God have over me?' Since God is rarely seen as malevolent, this can be re-phrased as 'How much can I rely on God take care of me?' This scale is closely related in concept to the Influence scale, and closely related psychometrically to the Presence and Influence scales. Persons scoring high on this scale perceive God, and, by implication, reality as a whole and especially other key people in their lives as willing and able to take care of their needs.

Comparison to norm: This score, 0.84, is somewhat above average. It may be that this person is simply more enthusiastic in response style, or more fervent in religious style, than most other people. But it is equally likely that this person has experienced reality, particularly parent figures, to be reliable in caring for their needs. This can make a therapeutic alliance easier to establish.

This subject's Faith score is 0.86.

General Background: The Faith scale is the first of two control scales which are reported in addition to the six clinical scales. These scales do not report a dimension of the subject's God image. Instead they provide supplementary information designed to help the clinician interpret the role of that image in the client's life. The Faith scale answers the question 'How much does this person believe that the God just described actually exists?' Persons with a high score on this scale have a strong belief that God exists, and is the sort of person they have described in the clinical scales of this inventory.

Comparison to norm: This score, 0.86, is somewhat above average. It may be that this person is either a little more enthusiastic in response style, or more a little more fervent in religious style, than most other people. Either might slightly elevate clinical scores, but probably is not of great influence.

This subject's Salience score is 1.57.

General Background: The Salience scale is the second of the two control scales. It measures the client's response to the question, 'How important is my relationship to this God that I am describing in my life?' Persons with a high score on this scale attach a high level of importance to their relationship with God.

Comparison to norm: This score, 1.57, is a very high score, close to the maximum possible score. Either this person is very religious and very fervently so, or is giving indiscriminately pro-religious responses. If clinical evaluation rules out fanaticism, prospects for religiously based approaches to therapy are encouraging.

Comparison to related scales: Note that this person's Salience score, 1.57, is somewhat higher than the average of their clinical scores, 0.98. This client may be more fervent, or simply more perplexed than the average. Clinical exploration of the sources of this phenomenon should be a priority.

Presence

QID	Question	Answer
Q001	God does not notice me.	1
Q003	I sometimes think of God while drifting off to sleep.	4
Q006	God lifts me up.	4
Q019	I am never sure that God is really listening to me.	1
Q021	God does not seem to notice when I cry.	1
Q033	I can feel God deep inside of me.	4
Q035	God doesn't feel very personal to me.	1
Q039	I can talk to God on an intimate basis.	4
Q040	God is always there for me.	3
Q042	God nurtures me.	3
Q043	God always has time for me.	3
Q044	I get no feeling of closeness to God, even in prayer.	1
Q058	Prayer for me feels like talking to God face to face.	3
Q096	I sometimes don't know where to look for God.	2
Q115	I sometimes feel cradled in God's arms.	4
Q123	I feel that God knows me by name.	4
Q125	God does not answer when I call.	2
Q127	God feels distant to me.	1
Q128	I often feel abandoned by God.	2
Q132	I rarely feel that God is with me.	1
Q135	I feel warm inside when I pray.	3
Q150	God never reaches out to me.	1
	Presence Scale Standard Score = 0.86 Raw Scale Total:	80

Challenge

QID	Question	Answer
Q007	God keeps calling me to develop myself.	4
Q008	God allows me to avoid the challenges of life.	1
Q013	My relationship with God helps me to ignore what is happening in the rest of the world.	1
Q014	My growth in maturity is pleasing to God.	4
Q027	God never challenges me.	1
Q028	Thinking too much could endanger my faith.	2
Q049	My faith in God helps me make decisions for myself.	3
Q052	God takes pleasure in my achievements.	3
Q054	God keeps asking me to try harder.	3
Q057	Being close to God and being active in the world don't mix.	2
Q062	God knows me better than to push me very hard.	2
Q066	God wants me to achieve all I can in life.	4
Q079	God helps me to keep going no matter how hard things are.	4
Q089	I ask God to help me grow from my troubles.	4
Q093	Learning too much about the world could endanger my faith.	1
Q094	God asks me to keep growing as a person.	4
Q099	God doesn't want me to ask too many questions	2
Q103	God makes few demands on me.	3
Q116	God has never asked me to do hard things.	2
Q129	I think human achievements are a delight to God.	3
Q145	God encourages me to go forward on the journey of life.	4
Q151	God doesn't mind if I don't grow very much.	1
	Challenge Scale Standard Score = 1.15 Raw Scale Total:	77

Acceptance

QID	Question	Answer
Q004	When I do wrong. God's back is turned to me.	1
Q015	I am sometimes anxious about whether God still loves me.	1
Q018	I am confident of God's love for me.	4
Q020	I know I'm not perfect, but God loves me anyway.	4
Q022	I have sometimes felt that I have committed the unforgivable sin.	2
Q030	One source of my own self-respect is God's love for me.	4
Q032	I try to be good because I know how much God loves me.	4
Q034	God's love for me has no strings attached.	2
Q037	Even when I do bad things, I know God still loves me.	4
Q046	God loves me only when I perform perfectly.	1
Q051	God loves me regardless.	3
Q055	Sometimes I feel that God doesn't love me anymore.	1
Q063	I often worry about whether God can love me.	1
Q084	God's love for me in unconditional.	4
Q085	When I think of God I feel at peace.	4
Q090	If God loves a lot of other people better than me.	1
Q110	I am not good enough for God to love.	3
Q134	God for me is like a faithful friend.	4
Q138	God's love is a constant source of comfort to me.	4
Q141	I often have nightmares about going to hell.	2
Q153	Sometimes I think that not even God could love me.	1
Q156	I would have to be a lot better person to be sure of God's love.	1
	Acceptance Scale Standard Score = 1.01 Raw Scale Total:	81

Benevolence

QID	Question	Answer
Q010	I imagine God to be rather formal, almost standoffish.	1
Q029	I think of God as more compassionate than demanding.	3
Q045	God is very patient.	4
Q050	I think God even loves atheists.	3
Q053	I can't imagine anyone God couldn't love.	4
Q059	God can easily be provoked by disobedience.	3
Q071	God has always seemed approachable to me.	3
Q080	God is looking for a chance to get even with me.	1
Q081	God's mercy is for everyone.	4
Q082	God has to forgive my sins, but probably doesn't really want to.	1
Q095	I think God only loves certain people.	1
Q107	Sometimes I feel that God is persecuting me.	1
Q109	Even if my beliefs about God were wrong, God would still love me.	4
Q114	God's compassion knows no religious boundaries.	3
Q118	Running the world is more important to God than caring about people.	1
Q133	I cannot imagine anyone more compassionate than God.	4
Q136	God loves me because God wants to.	4
Q137	I have a hard time believing in God's mercy.	1
Q144	I think God must enjoy getting even with us when we deserve it.	1
Q147	I think God loves us all equally.	4
Q154	Sometimes I have nightmares about God.	2
Q155	God's mercy is only for the chosen few.	1
	Benevolence Scale Standard Score = 0.85 Raw Scale Total:	81

Influence

QID	Question	Answer
Q005	When I obey God's rules, God makes good things happen for me.	3
Q017	Asking God for help rarely does me any good.	2
Q031	I get what I pray for.	3
Q036	No matter how hard I pray, it doesn't do any good.	1
Q047	I am not sure that my prayers matter to God.	1
Q056	I get no help from God even if I pray for it.	1
Q067	I am a very powerful person because of God.	2
Q068	Prayer changes things.	4
Q072	God helps me when I ask for help.	3
Q075	I would pray more if I thought it made a difference, but I don't think it does.	1
Q078	If God listens to prayers, you couldn't prove it to me.	1
Q083	I doubt that I will be rewarded for following God's rules.	1
Q086	My faith gives me some control over what happens to me.	3
Q088	I know what to do to get God to listen to me.	1
Q091	I have confidence when I pray.	4
Q097	God almost always answers my prayers.	3
Q120	I don't think my faith gives me any special influence with God.	3
Q131	It doesn't matter if I pray or not.	1
Q143	God rarely, if ever, seems to give me what I ask for.	2
Q146	God sometimes intervenes at my request.	4
Q149	I am more likely to succeed at something if I ask God for help.	4
Q152	No matter how hard I try to please God, it doesn't seem to do me any good.	1
	Influence Scale Standard Score = 0.68 Raw Scale Total:	74

Providence

QID	Question	Answer
Q011	I can see the direct hand of God in many things.	4
Q012	God guides me like a good parent.	4
Q023	The voice of God tells me what to do.	3
Q025	Even when I mess things up, I know God will straighten them out.	3
Q048	What happens in my life is largely a result of decisions make.	3
Q064	God is more of an observer of my life than a participant.	1
Q065	God is in control of my life.	1
Q069	God will always provide for me.	4
Q070	Not even God can change how things will come out.	1
Q074	I doubt that God interferes very much in human affairs.	1
Q076	I think God mostly leaves people free.	3
Q087	I trust in God to take care of me.	4
Q092	God walks beside me and shows me where to go.	3
Q104	God does not do much to determine the outcome of my life.	2
Q106	God lets the world run by its own laws.	1
Q119	I often feel that I am in the hands of God.	3
Q122	Mostly, I have to provide for myself.	2
Q124	I am particularly drawn to the image of God as a shepherd.	4
Q126	I most often feel that I must face my problems alone.	1
Q130	I feel that God has a very specific plan for my life.	3
Q139	I am pretty much responsible for my own life.	2
Q140	God has very little influence over my life.	1
	Providence Scale Standard Score = 0.84 Raw Scale Total:	73

Faith

QID	Question	Answer
Q009	The world would make no sense to me without God.	4
Q016	My belief in God is as solid as a rock.	4
Q026	I am not very sure what God is really like.	2
Q041	I have often changed my beliefs about God.	2
Q060	I am sure there has to be a God.	4
Q098	My faith in God is very strong.	4
Q100	I have often doubted the existence of God.	1
Q105	I am not very firm in my beliefs about God.	1
Q112	I have confidence in my beliefs about God.	4
Q121	I am sure that God really exists.	4
Q142	My ideas about God are pretty vague.	2
Q148	I have sometimes wondered whether God really exists or not.	2
	Faith Scale Standard Score = 0.86 Raw Scale Total:	44

Salience

QID	Question	Answer
Q002	I would live the same way whether I believed in God or not.	1
Q024	My belief in God has made a big difference in my life.	4
Q038	My belief in God is central to my life.	4
Q061	God is not terribly relevant to my life.	1
Q073	My belief in God makes a major difference in the way I live.	4
Q077	Everyday things are more important to me than trying to be close to God.	1
Q101	I do not think about God very often.	1
Q102	I get a great deal out of the time I spend in prayer.	4
Q108	I would say that I am a God-centered person.	4
Q111	I think it is best not to get too involved with God.	1
Q113	If I became convinced that God did not exist, nothing much in my life would change.	1
Q117	In making major decisions, I almost always think about my relationship to God.	4
	Salience Scale Standard Score = 1.57 Raw Scale Total:	48